Foundation Day Celebrations - Icon Exhibition and Music

To celebrate Foundation Day when Catherine McAuley, Anna Maria Doyle, and Elizabeth Harley made vows as Sisters of Mercy and thus established the Mercy congregation, Mercy International Association is hosting an afternoon of music, prayer, and meditation on icons.

The festivities from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. will include a prayer service with the renewal of vows for Sisters of Mercy present, an icon exhibition of the work of members of the Association of Iconographers of Ireland, input by Carmel Murtagh rsm on the meaning and writing of icons, music by organists Eithne Doyle rsm and Teresa Martin rsm and violinist Ailish O’Brien rsm, and light refreshments.